This Alaskan Frog Freezes Solid Every Winter, Then Comes Back to Life

The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...
ZME Science

These Frogs Freeze Solid Until Their Hearts Stop For Months. Scientists Say They Could Transform How Organ Transplants Work

Wood frogs — Lithobates sylvaticus, also known as Rana sylvatica — live farther north than any other amphibian, even beyond ...

Meet The Frog That Breaks The No. 1 Amphibian Rule. Hint: It Survives Where No Other Species Can

Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...
Forbes

Meet The Frog That Freezes Solid Every Winter — And Thaws Back To Life Every Spring

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. It looks dead for months, its body packed with ice. But ...
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Backpack frog battles: How evolution turned motherhood into armor

Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog females carry fertilized eggs in a dorsal pouch, providing protection and moisture. Embryos undergo direct development, emerging as fully formed froglets without a ...
NPR

Muddy boots and AI are helping this threatened frog to make a comeback

It had been five years since the first of the frog eggs had been moved, carefully plucked from Mexico's Baja Peninsula and transported by cooler to Southern California. Anny Peralta-Garcia was getting ...